Another month, another issue. What have we got for you this time?

Our lead story is “Beach Blanket Spaceship” by Sandra McDonald, which is just perfect for warm summer days (with apologies to our Southern Hemisphere readers). As ever, the story is available as a podcast, narrated by the fabulous Kate Baker.

The second story is “The Association of the Dead” by Rahul Kanakia which, as you might expect, involves “Braaaaiiiiiiinnnns”, though hopefully not as you would expect. This one will be podcast in a couple of weeks time.

This month’s interview is with Jeff VanderMeer’s artist friend, Scott Eagle. There are some splendid images accompanying it.

My purchase for July is an ecology article by Sarah Goslee. “Packing for a Very Long Trip” is all about creating sustainable micro-environments for use on space stations, lunar colonies, generation ships and the like. It appears that the Chinese are being rather smart about this, though you may not like what they have on the menu.

And finally our cover art is “My Secret Friend” by Murat Turan. He’s from Turkey, which is rather nice as I’ve just started reading Ian McDonald’s The Dervish House.

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